Triangle-shaped rice packet wrapped in dried seaweed sheets

Samgak-gimbap 삼각김밥

Samgak-gimbap is a triangular shaped gimbap which is designed to keep the seaweed fresh by putting it between 2 thin sheets of plastic. So you can eat it hours later, and it will still be crispy. It was invented by a Japanese company. I think whoever thought of this was pretty clever!

Add 1 ts of hot pepper paste, 1 ts of sesame oil, and 1 ts of roasted sesame seeds to the kimchi and mix it up.

Put the rice and filling in the mold:

Fill the mold about 2/3 full with cooked rice.

Place your filling in the center.

Top up the mold with rice, put on the lid, and press it down.

Wrap it up:

Take out a piece of gim from the package. Don’t remove the plastic wrap, we need this! Look for the numbers on the sheet. The numbers side of the sheet goes down, and #1 should be pointing away from you.

Take the lid off your mold, and place it face down on your sheet. The tip of the triangle should be pointing away from you, towards #1. Let the rice packet gently slide out on to the sheet.

Fold the sheet over the rice, away from you and towards #1. Then fold up the sides. Keep them in place with the sticker that came with the gim

Eat it:

When you’re ready to eat it, look for #1 on the side of the packet. Pull that tab and the plastic will peel off.

Gently remove #2 and then #3, putting the gim back into place each time.

140 Comments:

Hi Maangchi! I love Korean cooking and I just stumbled upon your cookbook and website. Love love love your recipes and video instructions! So easy to follow. This is my first time making samgak and it was very successful.Thank you and I look forward to trying your other recipes. ❤️ Keep cooking!

If you don’t have the plastic triangle, how about making the triangular shape by bending sturdy cardboard into a triangle and the covering the cardboard with waxed paper, so rice wouldn’t stick. Just a thought.

Check out any Asian grocery stores there. I’m sure you will be able to find kim (seaweed paper) at least. Make triangle shaped rice balls with filling and wrap them with the seaweed. https://www.maangchi.com/ingredients/kim

Maangchi,
I love this recipe! It’s one of my favorite things to pack for lunch.
I was wondering if you had any other ideas for spicy fillings (besides the kimchi). I want to try more fillings but can’t think of any myself.
:)

I just made this yesterday for lunches but my family isn’t big on tuna or kimchi so i made chicken everything. the tuna filling was amazing if you just switched the tuna with chicken. as for spicy, i took the kimchi recipe and switched it for chicken as well. I added an extra teaspoon of hot pepper paste and warmed it all in a pan. It came out really well. I hope this helped. =)